Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said President Donald Trump plans to call up 300 members of the state’s national guard, defying opposition from local and state leaders.
The deployment signals a potential escalation in the administration’s focus on Chicago, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have stepped up activity and tensions have flared between federal agents and protesters outside an immigration processing center in suburban Broadview, Illinois. On Friday, a Chicago City Council member was handcuffed and detained by federal agents at a hospital.
The Illinois National Guard on Saturday received a request from the Defense Department — which Trump has renamed the Department of War — saying he plans to federalize 300 members of the state’s National Guard in "the coming hours,” Pritzker said.
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